you left reddit because 3rd party apps were being killed off.
I left reddit because reddit sucks and I've been looking for an alternative for a long while now.
We are not the same.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I haven't deleted my account or anything, but after RIF Is Fun closes it's doors, I will likely be on Reddit very seldomly if at all. Most of my browsing of Reddit has been via RIF since 2015. The official app has always been a slow, glitchy, ad-riddled piece of shit. RIF was like using a mobile-friendly version of the old layout and was 1000% more stable. So instead of finding a way to integrate something similar into the official app and fixing their bloatware, they decide to kill third party apps altogether. You'd think EA owned Reddit by the way they're going about things these days.
No skin off my nose if Reddit ceases to function. The Reddit that exists today bares very little resemblance to the website I fell in love with 14 years ago.
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It's showerthoughts. not supposed to be taken entirely literally!
my post is in the format of a meme, it's not supposed to be taken seriously. but yeah it's pretty ironic.
my meme game is obviously severely lacking.
Not understanding every meme? Believe it or, straight to jail.
i left because 3rd party apps were being killed off, I'm staying because this is a superior community
I left because the way they went about killing third party apps. Bad faith notification, shit communication, and slandering Christian.
Same, they could have easily bundled in third party apps as only something you can use with Reddit gold or something, and I would have happily done that.
I left because having that sort of person at the helm is just disconcerting.
Maybe the lack of third-party apps is the friends we made along the way?
People are not moving over here for convenience, it's new young software with many flaws and missing features. I think most of us are just looking for a brighter future of social networks, one not dictated by a megacorporation and instead segmented more under our individual control. It's impossible for this to match reddit in everything since that's a company with thousands of employees and a 10 year headstart, but perfect shouldn't be an enemy of good.
I'm with you. Plus I really miss the pre-socmed days of the internet where it was just specialized forums. Being early at kbin kinda sorta maybe feels similar.
Also the Kbin web UI is already better than the official Reddit Mobile app or site, IMO.
It's no Relay for Reddit, but I'm cautiously optimistic that in six months there will be a bunch of third party apps to choose from.
To me, I loved using Relay for Reddit, but them killing the 3rd party apps in itself wasn't why I left. The whole situation just showed that Reddit doesn't care about the community, they just care about profit, and they'll happily shaft the users and prominent members of the community.
Even then, the way they went about getting that profit was so sleazy to me. I don't like it, but I get a company needing to make a profit. But there's ways of doing that where you can still put the community first.
This, I was all going with the flow with the blackout (my 3rd party app in particular is apparently "in talks" so good chance won't get shut down), but after the AMA I just left. I spend time here and on tildes, fulfills my need to be social on the internet.
Hell, before the AMA I was willing to pay a sub to use an app on my phone, not anymore . . . after all the shit of the past decade I am just done, and I think there are thousands like me.
Kmoon (3rd party app) is in development
edit: called Artemis now after a community vote
As someone who just stumbled onto this a few minutes ago, I just want to add that it’s now called Artemis (rip Apollo)
To be fair, kbin on a mobile browser is already leagues above the official reddit app
I saw some roadkill on the way to work today that looked and functioned better than the official app.
Incredibly true
I tried the official app an hour ago. Now I'm on Firefox mobile. This is accurate.
About the only thing that sucks is the comments being separated by page. Also, I don't seem to get notification when someone replies to a comment/post.
So the only thing lacking here is just the user numbers
I had that problem too but turns out I didn't turn on notifications in settings. Maybe tweaking that might help?
I have explored all the settings options and I don't see an option to turn on notifications. Where?
The reasons we used third-party apps were to avoid ads, bots, big brother. I'm personally looking forward to the fediverse making an app though.
Fine, it just means things go back to the pre-mobile days when you did everything on your PC.
It's about locking down the API so that they can harvest user personal data with their own app. It's about the open hate from spez, hoffman, admins toward the community.
He'll, I typically used the reddit app rather than 3rd party, but they're doing too much shady-ass shit, and have been for too long (mainly thinking of the mod situation and how a few mods control a vast amount of content without seemingly any oversight). It's weird over here, but it reminds me of when I joined reddit more than 10 years ago now, it's got that vibe, ya know?
I was in the Wild West of the internet once, I’ll be in the Wild West of the internet again.
Joke's on you I'm reading this on jerboa
We left reddit because it killed 3rd party apps that it needs to be functional.
I came here because the experience is already better without 3PA.
Also, this is my inaugural comment on kbin. Hello world!
I left Reddit because they killed 3rd party apps. I came somewhere 3rd party apps can’t be killed. Also, there’s several 3rd party apps.
kbin (where the op is) still doesn't have a 3rd party app, although someone's already working on it.
We didn't just leave Reddit because of the apps in the end. They did a blackout for apps. I left mainly because I can't stand spez.
Spaz is a major tool.
kbin doesn't need a third party app because the website works great, and unlike reddit, isnt filled to the brim with ads and trackers
There are no 3rd party apps yet. But nothing is stopping one from being made. I'm happy to use a web browser to use Kbin until a more rounded App comes along.
We didn't leave because we wouldn't have them any longer, we left because we saw it as unfair how third-party developers have been treated and how the content from users was exploited.
Either way, many people are already working on Kbin and Lemmy apps, some of which already exist.
It is ironic, but the great thing about Kbin is that since it's not subject to Reddit's bullshit API policies, we could see some great third party apps for it in the near future. Meanwhile the way things are going on Reddit, people probably aren't going to have a choice but to use the official app come July 1st.
Kbin's got potential. Reddit... not so much.
I'm not having a go or anything. I'm loving this whole transition period. I do miss my boost app though! Does jerboa connect to kbin? or just lemmy? I should go find that out for myself. brb. Also realise that others are most likely being worked on.
Just lemmy, far as I know. There's one in development called Kmoon, but I can't currently pull up a link and it's still in development anyway. I do really miss Boost, though. The tagging system was both fun and useful, and color-coding the threads made them SO much easier to follow if I had to scroll back up for something right quick
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